Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With weeks , sometimes months between the issue of travel documents and their actual use , frequent changes in timetabling and the inevitable delays on overworked railways and sea routes , predicting when and where a transport would arrive was about as reliable as betting on a roulette wheel . |
| 2 | This led to a discussion of timetabling and the constraints imposed by group sizes , and how these constraints might be eased . |
| 3 | Prevent the ends twisting and the resulting torsion is relieved only by the strand twisting about itself . |
| 4 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 5 | Willie Baxter was gripped by fear , he did n't understand it , he hated the dark tunnels , he stopped walking and the noise stopped ; by now Willie was probably near the point where the tunnels passed under the River Clyde and it was said that it was possible to hear the sound of a ship 's propeller whenever a vessel passed overhead . |
| 6 | the thing is though , he 'll be walking and the other one still be in the pram , get that one out again |
| 7 | Back outside , children are weeping , mothers are wailing and a thousand haunted , hungry eyes bore into you . |
| 8 | The crux is that the amount of damages obtainable will , prima facie , be the total of the salary and fringe benefits to which you would have been entitled between the time of the job actually ending and the time at which the contract could lawfully have been ended by due notice . |
| 9 | But those were the first and last meteorites found until the six week season was ending and the party was preparing to leave Antarctica . |
| 10 | Late in January , 1982 , as the season was ending and the weather deteriorating , a member of the American team accompanied a visiting geologist on a long snowmobile traverse to examine the regional configuration of the ice sheet . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's understanding and a good listener . ’ |
| 12 | With long-term prisoners and lifers much of their work is centred on the understanding of offending behaviour and the risks of re-offending ; with others , the whole range of family and personal problems call for tact , understanding and a good deal of dogged , patient work . |
| 13 | The student acquires knowledge , understanding and a range of competencies in a particular domain . |
| 14 | The muted phrases in bars 2 and 3 should be performed using fairly heavy palm muting and a strong pick attack . |
| 15 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 16 | Dock strikes were occurring and a general strike was clearly impending . |
| 17 | One can only say that , with any increases in exposure , the likelihood of ill effects occurring and the extent of ill effects which might occur would be expected to increase … |
| 18 | I feel the media have a great responsibility to inform the public in ways they can understand , how great the challenge is becoming and the need to make changes before it is too late . |
| 19 | Yet there is a pronounced asymmetry between the approach to equilibrium during cooling and the behaviour on heating . |
| 20 | To a solution of PABA-UDCA ( 1.0 g ) in anhydrous pyridine ( 10 ml ) was added chlorosulphonic acid ( 1.0 ml ) in anhydrous pyridine ( 10 ml ) with ice cooling and the solution was then heated overnight at 50°C . |
| 21 | Lava is formed from magma by cooling and the loss of gas . |
| 22 | The engine allows shutdown just 30 seconds after landing and the rotor brake means safe passenger embarkation shortly afterwards . |
| 23 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 24 | Record keeping and the evaluation of results are facilitated if instead of a subjective description , any changes are recorded in terms of a scale such as the following : |
| 25 | The large headstock , with its shallow pitch , looks quite in keeping and the mini-Schaller machineheads help lend an up-market air . |
| 26 | The band was excellent , the food most appetising and the sum of £50 was raised for the Octagon Club . |
| 27 | Thus there is no appreciable lag phase before emptying and the curve is non-linear . |
| 28 | This is not true in the case of urinary incontinence ( when the sufferer has no idea of what 's happening and no control over it ) . |
| 29 | In constitutional treatment , a much greater insight into what is happening and the significance of the symptoms is required , that is as to what constitutes the totality of the disease for which a most similar remedy is required . |
| 30 | The government in London was kept well informed of what was happening and the rebellion might never have got off the ground but for the effects of the Act of Union of the Two Kingdoms of England and Scotland , which came into effect on 1 May 1707 . |